Schieffer: No Matter How Many Times You Say Bin Laden Is Dead, Terrorism Is Alive

Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation” host Bob Schieffer appeared to criticize the Obama administration for his lack of action in fighting global terrorism by saying, “I don’t care how many times you say Osama bin laden is dead, terror remains alive and a threat to the United States. What we need to be talking about is how to combat and defeat it.”

“I disagree with most of the pundits who thought Hillary Clinton’s stumble last week when she criticized the president’s foreign policy then said she wasn’t really criticizing it. Of course she was. but I thought her point was valid,” Schieffer said. “Around the White House they have been saying the crux of the president’s policy is, don’t do stupid stuff. In her words, ‘great nations need organizing principles don’t do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle.’ That really irked the president’s people, far more significant to me was what she said deeper in the interview when she said, what is needed is an overarching strategy to contain, deter, defeat jihadist terrorism, a strategy much like strategy we employed to eventually defeat the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I think she’s got that right.

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He added, “And I think the president benefits from hearing it from someone in his own party. I don’t care how many times you say Osama bin Laden is dead. terror remains alive and a threat to the United States. What we need to be talking about is how to combat and defeat it.”